Rapid assessments of tropical dung beetle and butterfly assemblages: Contrasting trends along a forest disturbance gradient

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 194-203

  Hayes, Lucy ^a   Mann, Darren J ^a   Monastyrskii, Alexander L ^b   Lewis, Owen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Vietnam Russia Tropical Centre   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Diversity; Indicator; Inventory; Lepidoptera; Scarabaeidae; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049100947     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2009.00058.x     Document Type: Article

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